Unexpected Return

In a large bedroom, there was a boy in a bed sleeping peacefully which was interrupted by a knocking at the door. The boy, however, was completely unfazed continued to sleep. The party on the other side of the door waited a bit before knocking again this time they knocked harder.

This time the boy was annoyed and as he sat up, he couldn't help but complain. But that all stopped the moment he saw where he was. He couldn't believe it, he quickly shook off his drowsiness despite his disbelief and tried thinking of the possibilities of what was going on.

He was in a modern room, and he was currently is seated upon a big king-sized bed, in the corner of the room there is a variety of toy weapons. and in another corner was..` a computer?` It had a desk and a big leather chair, it looked new but that's not what confused the boy. What confused him was the computer itself.

Such a thing shouldn't exist where he was, he hadn't seen one for 17 years but he knew that this was definitely a computer. He jumped off the bed only to realise, he's very short, looking down at his hands and legs he notices that they are all way too small. As a man who has been through countless fights and has had countless experience's in deadly situations, he doesn't panic and manages to keep calm even in such a bizarre situation.

He looks around the room again, his sight finally stops on a man tall mirror. When he stood in front of the mirror he was shocked but also couldn't help but feel a little excited. The mirror reflected a child who was roughly 9 or 10 with bright crimson messy hair and gold eyes with no visible pupil and a pale face that while was still very childish, but you could tell he was going to be handsome when he was older. `I'm back in my own body?` pausing his thoughts on the matter for the moment.

The boy goes to open the door since someone had been knocking for quite a while. What greeted him on the other side of the door was a short maid with a cute face along with silver eyes and hair that was in a single braid. She is wearing a black and white maid uniform with frills that only went down to the knees. she didn't look older than 20.

"Young master, the master is calling you over for breakfast," she said then proceeded to bow, but she didn't leave.

Seeing that she didn't leave, the boy didn't understand why but didn't question it.

"Alright give me a minute" The boy closed the door again and began to look for clothes since he was currently in some cartoon pyjamas, what surprised him however was how easily the language came to him it was if he had spoken it every day.

He found an in-wall wardrobe, however, the number of clothes didn't even use up even half the space. He quickly picked out a white baggy T-shirt that almost reached his the t.h.i.g.hs just above the knees, clearly too big for him. Then he picked some black Jean shorts, and for his feet, he just chose some casual white trainers.

The door was once again opened and he saw the maid was still standing there.

Seeing the boy finally come out the maid was prepared to leave, but she couldn't help but stop when she saw what he was wearing. Although it didn't look bad, it wasn't something the usual young master would wear.

Seeing how the maid stared at him weirdly he couldn't help but start feeling awkward.

"So what's your name?" he asked with a smile, trying to get her attention elsewhere.

"It's Daisy you know this why are you asking? did you hit your head young master?" she looked genuinely confused and worried, however before the boy could answer she continued on to say "By the way Young master are you sure you're going to wear that to breakfast?"

"Of course what's wrong with it? It's only breakfast" he tilted his head in confusion not understanding what the problem was.

"If you're ok with it never-mind then" she couldn't help but sigh seeing how weird the boy was being today.

Then without saying anything she started to walk away, the boy decided to follow since he wasn't too sure where to go.

As they were walking the boy started to search through some memories from 17 years ago but since he was 10 at the time there wasn't much he could remember.

He knew his name was Erik Grimes since how could one forget their name, even if it had been 17 years since it was last used. He also remembered that he had both his parents along with a little brother called `Arch Grimes` and a little sister called `Emi Rufina`.

He was slightly surprised by how easily he remembered things.

Erik and Daisy finally arrived at a large hall which was one of the biggest rooms he's ever seen till now. In the middle of the hall was 4 people chatting on a square table clearly too small for a hall of such size. Erik wanted to say something to Daisy only to realise she wasn't there any more, shrugging his shoulder's he made his way over to the table.

There he saw what the 4 people looked like, one was a reasonably tall man who looked to be in his mid 30's with light brown messy hair and golden eyes with no pupil. ` My Father, Arthur Grimes` Erik couldn't help but think they looked very similar in everything except hair colour.

Next to his Father was a beautiful woman with straight Crimson hair and beautiful bright red eyes that could only be described as ruby-like eyes. `Nina Rufina, my mother` she looked in her mid 20's but Erik knew she wasn't even in her 20's any more.

"Morning" everyone was startled and couldn't help but look at Erik who just arrived with none them of noticing.

"Did you sleep well?" Nina asked with a smile

"Yes, but I had a very long dream" Erik wasn't sure how he went to Japan nor how he returned to his body but he decided to not think about it for now and just pass it off as a dream for the time being.

Erik then sat at a seat across from his parents with his father in front of him and his mother too left. Next to his seat was a boy whom he didn't notice before since his back was facing him and the chair was taller than him. The Boy happened to be his little brother Arch. Looking at Arch he couldn't help but find him slightly odd looking, he had dim looking straight ginger hair with bits of dark brown hair mixed in, with red eyes that although bright were nowhere near their mother's. Arch also looked somewhat above average but it confused Erik how such good-looking parents weren't just guaranteed to have super good looking children.

`Arch is truly unlucky` Erik couldn't stop himself thinking.

"Hehehe Eri lets play after" Erik looked over where the cute voice came from, and to his mother's right was a little girl with crimson messy hair in a short ponytail with her right eye being red and her left being green.

`She will be very beautiful in the future.` He thought to himself. `Wait by Eri does she mean me?`

"sorry but I have something to do after," Erik said while smiling `i tried saying it as nicely as possible I don't want to make a child cry right after I just returned after all and especially not my sister`

It seemed however he had nothing to worry about it, she simply pouted while puffing out her cheek and crossing her arms and then looking away from him.

Erik found it simply too cute and funny he couldn't help but give a slight giggle and it seemed Nina too couldn't help herself either which made the little redhead pout even more.

When Breakfast was over Erik made his way to the library with the help of the servants along the way, it didn't take long before he finally managed to find his way there. Inside was a library filled with every type of book. Erik was trying to find books that would give him a world map or something that would help understand where he was along with what year.

It took him all morning to find 4 books which he hoped would help. He took a seat at one of the chair's in the library that surrounded a round table in the middle of the library. When he looked at the big books on the table he suddenly didn't know where to start so he just chose the biggest one.

The books were truly big it took him 3 days to finish all of them, no one from his family understood why he had only been reading for the past few days. his mother who was curious what he was so into and asked him what he was reading after getting her answer she no longer questioned it, only little Emi who would always come to ask him to play several times a day no-one else bothered him.

After reading the books which apart from one were very useful, Erik now had some understanding towards the world, he first tried to find Japan where he had spent 17 years of his life but it didn't seem to exist and never did which just added more to the mystery.

Next was the fact that there are currently 4 continents, two of which have tens of countries within them while one of them only has 2 countries and the last one doesn't have any countries at all. Erik wasn't sure which one he lived in so he went to ask his mother.

"hmm?" Nina was slightly taken back by the question but she knew what he had been reading recently so she wasn't too surprised that had come to ask questions "We live in Oreron which is one of the biggest countries within Demia"

Erik went through what he had recently learnt about Demia, the books had said that Demia was a continent where most countries focused on building military power. War's weren't usually fought by using an army nowadays, instead, the most commonly used methods are duels, whether they be 1v1, 5v5 or even 50v50.

Usually, as long as both sides agree to the terms there are no problems. Not to say that full out wars don't happen they are just rare.

Now he understood what he had to do, in a place where individual power plays a large role in how well you live, the only thing to do is get stronger than everyone else.